The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer - libri usati

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1834. Excerpt: ... THE ODYSSEY. BOOK XIX. Now, with Minerva, meditating blood, Death to the suitors, stern Ulysses stood, And thus his son address'd: ' No more delay, ' All the war-weapons from the hall convey : ' And if the wooers should the cause enquire, ' Thus answer, and elude their keen desire ;-- ' From smoke I free them: other now their light ' Than when Ulysses join'd the Trojan fight. ' Far as the flame has spread its sullying steam, ' The vapour has obscured their radiant beam. ' Jove too with higher aim has me inspired, ' Lest ye by wine inflamed, and passion fired, ' Through mutual wounds the feast and courtship mar. ' The sight of weapons oft engenders war.' He spake : Telemachus his sire obey'd, And to his nurse, kind Euryclea, said-- ' Nurse, bid the females in their chamber stay, ' That I within my room in order lay ' My father's arms, which in his absence rust, ' With smoke polluted, and obscured with dust. ' I was a child till now;--mark thou my speech : ' Yes--I will range them where no smoke can reach.' ' So rouse thy manly mind,' the nurse replied, ' To guard thy treasures, and thy household guide. ' But--who accompanying shall bear the light, ' Since they who should precede must shun thy sight ?' ' This guest,' the prince replied,' his bread shall gain, ' None fed by me, shall here untask'd remain.' Not vain his word. Then Euryclea closed The chambers where at rest the maids reposed. The monarch and his son now onward bore, And ranged in order all the warlike store, Helms, shields, and lances, while with guiding ray The guardian Goddess held before their way A golden lamp aloft, that widely cast Beams of surpassing splendour where they pass'd. ' My sire,' the prince exclaim'd, ' a beauteous light ' Where'er I gaze streams wondrous on my sight : ' The walls, the fir-tree beams, a...